If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that’s more than just entertainment-w hich is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.

Love and sausage are alike. Can never have enough of either.

My wife is my first audience. She's a tough lady, so I can't say that I ever scare her. Except, of course, when she sees me the way I look before breakfast.

When a knot gets to tight, you can always cut the rope

I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.